This handbook presents a step-by-step outline of how to successfully launch and implement a new educational concept or program. A heavy emphasis is placed on the "program marketing" approach, which assumes that a new program must be "sold" to its "consumers" (i.e., teachers or students) if it is to be successfully implemented. Because the handbook…

The report outlines a K-12 career education program planned and implemented for 18 months. Six goals and objectives were designed to produce career exploration and practical occupational experiences, an instructional model, student and community counseling and placement services, and inservice education. The procedures followed in developing the…

One of the essential services in rehabilitation centers is offered in the prevocational unit. This unit explores the client's abilities through specific activities in a variety of work experiences directed toward evaluating the client's vocational potentialities. The six major objectives of such a unit are described and organization and program…

The primary purpose of an advisory council is to assist and advise the teacher and administration in planning, organizing, and conducting an instructional program in agricultural education that will effectively meet the needs of the people in the community. Advisory councils are classified as general (serves all of vocational education or a…

Career education at the elementary level in Oregon focuses on career awareness and career exploration. At the secondary level a higher degree of experiences is developed in career exploration, which is concerned with self-understanding, occupational exploration, and career information. Career exploration provides experiences in career decision…

In an Ohio Library Association guide for planning workshops, detailed instructions are given for forming a committee, holding meetings, selecting and paying the speaker, and developing the program. Budgets and fees are discussed along with information on federal funding. Practical guidance is also provided about equipment, table arrangements,…

This report, in addition to being a final report for an NIE grant awarded to the Wisconsin Research and Development Center for Cognitive Learning, summarizes the strategies, efforts, and results of implementing Individually Guided Education (IGE) nationally since 1971. Chapter 2 of this report (Chapter 1 is an introduction.) briefly describes the…

The California Right to Read program is for schools interested in changing or revising their reading programs. Right to Read offers services and materials designed to guide schools through program planning. This approach is based on the philosophy that California Right to Read can most effectively serve a school by working with its staff to plan…

Provided in working draft form is a matrix for developing written program plans (at either the school, district, State Department, or Regional Office of Education planning levels) for educating gifted and talented students. The matrix contains separate columns for elements, objectives, and implementation and focused on the following major…

The handbook, developed by the National Summer Leadership Training Institute (1972 and 1973) on the Education of the Gifted and Talented, provides background information for program development, worksheets for applying information, and models which illustrate successful program ideas. Topics considered in the section on initiating a program are…

This report summarizes and compares results of three conference seminars on Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) held in 1967, 1968, and 1969 for administrators and teachers. Basic seminar objectives were to give participants an opportunity to exchange ideas about IPI, to provide them with information concerning future developments of IPI,…

This report describes the conceptual design of a regional information system, developed in support of the Denver Regional Council of Government's established comprehensive planning work program. It includes a discussion of system objectives, available data sources, recommended system content, software and system maintenance requirements,…

The author discusses "post-work education" opportunities in Norway (that is, education available to those who have previously completed their schooling and have since been otherwise occupied), and outlines directions which permanent education may be expected to take. He stresses the role which existing educational institutions, and…

Teachers of adults should be aware of the fact that although learning ability can decline with disuse, a person's basic learning capacity does not change in the adult years. Among major sensitivities adult educators need, however, are a keen awareness of adult concerns for place and circumstances of educational facilities, an effective working…

Reported is the construction of a primary mathematics curriculum on two kinds of data: the structure of mathematics itself, and the developmental realities of the child. Principles which have been assumed in this development are (1) since mathematics is abstract, the process of abstracting mathematics must be well prepared, (2) since mathematics…